Many of the accommodations outside of the cities are geared to the ecotourist, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're rustic. Accommodations range from safari-style tent camps to nature lodges in t...

Costa Allegra

China on a sizeable scale only started in 2006 when Costa positioned its first ship there, the 1,000-passenger CostaAllegra .<br /><br />Since then, it has ratcheted up capacity with a series of bigger ships, including the current

canceled after a fire caused a blackout on the ship off the Philippines. A month earlier, a generator fire on the CostaAllegra left it adrift for three days in the Indian Ocean, without hotel services for its 636 passengers. And earlier this

trickle of interest in China as a source market came in 2006, when Carnival announced it would send the 820-passenger CostaAllegra to begin developing a Chinese clientele. Now the test period has yielded to a growth stage, in which bigger ships

The CostaAllegra , which caught fire earlier this year and has been slated for disposition ..... reports. Costa earlier this month confirmed it had finalized the sale of CostaAllegra to Themis Maritime Ltd. "The financial terms of the operations cannot

206 million a year earlier. The company is still recovering from the Costa Concordia wreck and a fire aboard the CostaAllegra as well as from broader market forces such as the fallout from high airfares to Europe and the eurozone crisis. Micky

million a year earlier. Carnival Corp. is still recovering from the Costa Concordia shipwreck and a fire aboard the CostaAllegra , as well as broader market forces such as the fallout from high airfares and the eurozone crisis. Arison said cruise

weeks following the Jan. 13 grounding of the Costa Concordia off Tuscany and the Feb. 27 engine room fire aboard the CostaAllegra . But since then volume has steadily rebounded. Citing "significant positive booking trends in Europe," Costa last

relations setbacks: the Costa Cruises’ Concordia incident in January followed by two shipboard fires, one on the CostaAllegra and one on the Azamara Quest. Cruisers and potential cruisers, however, should not lose sleep over the al-Qaida

suffered an engine room fire and became disabled in the Indian Ocean. It was eventually towed to the Seychelles. The CostaAllegra was permanently removed from service, and the Costa Concordia was deemed a total constructive loss. But Foschi

are assessing the damage. It was the second high-profile cruise-ship fire this year. An engine room fire on the CostaAllegra on Feb. 27 left the ship adrift in the Indian Ocean, off Tasmania. The ship eventually was towed to a port in the